Description
Illustrating the key drivers in effective supply chain management.
Supply Chain Management: illustrates the key drivers of good supply chain management in order to help students understand what creates a competitive advantage. This text also provides strong coverage of analytic skills so students can gauge the effectiveness of the techniques described in the text.
Features
Cases that Illustrate Supply Chain Management in Action.
Sometimes an explanation just isn’t enough. This text uses case studies to illustrate how companies are successfully using the key drivers of a supply chain, providing students with practical managerial levels and concepts that may be used to improve supply chain performance.
Framework for Supply Chain Strategy.
To further illustrate the fundamentals of good supply chain management, this text employs a strategic framework that identifies facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing as the key drivers of supply chain performance. The strategic framework and concepts discussed in the text are tied together through a variety of examples that show how a combination of concepts is needed to achieve significant increases in performance.
Focus on Global Supply Chains.
Chapter 6 is focused on the design of global supply chain networks, helping students understand how business becomes more internationally focused each year. The chapter starts with a detailed discussion of the cost associated with the off-shoring decision and the importance of risk when designing supply chain networks. This provides context for the following discussion on evaluating supply chain decisions under uncertainty.
Appendix in Chapter 11.
This new appendix details how safety inventory calculations can be made, helping students build specific analytical skills.
Table of Contents Part I Building a Strategic Framework to Analyze Supply Chains Chapter 1 Understanding the Supply Chain Chapter 2 Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope Chapter 3 Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics Part II Designing the Supply Chain Network Chapter 4 Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to e-Business Chapter 5 Network Design in the Supply Chain Chapter 6 Designing Global Supply Chain Networks Part III Planning and Coordinating Demand and Supply in a Supply Chain Chapter 7 Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain Chapter 8 Aggregate Planning in a Supply Chain Chapter 9 Sales and Operations Planning: Planning Supply and Demand in a Supply Chain Chapter 10 Coordination in a Supply Chain Part IV Planning and Managing Inventories in a Supply Chain Chapter 11 Managing Economies of Scale in a Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory Chapter 12 Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain: Safety Inventory Chapter 13 Determining the Optimal Level of Product Availability Part V Designing and Planning Transportation Networks Chapter 14 Transportation in a Supply Chain Part VI Managing Cross-Functional Drivers in a Supply Chain Chapter 15 Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain Chapter 16 Pricing and Revenue Management in a Supply Chain Chapter 17 Information Technology in a Supply Chain Chapter 18 Sustainability and the Supply Chain